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vilify
verb as in criticize very harshly
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The second event occurred later in his congressional speech, when Trump vilified “unelected bureaucrats” who run government.
That’s of specific note in a time when the language is being vilified and used to target Latinos for deportation.
He was stripped of his pilot’s license, arrested, imprisoned, vilified in the press and — along with the ship’s captain and the naval officer who oversaw the harbor — charged with manslaughter.
Despite being vilified, threatened and humiliated in public, veteran Cameroonian lawyer Alice Nkom is determined to uphold the rights of homosexual people in her country.
He argued that the department was following a similar playbook from past scandals: protect senior-level officials “while vilifying lower-ranking employees, and then move on.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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